Example sentences for: surmounted

How can you use “surmounted” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Amazingly, though, this seemingly insurmountable problem can be surmounted.

  • The razor crossed with the fountain pen, surmounted by a box of matches, reminds those in the know that Murphy, the model for the hero of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night , gave up painting to run the family business, Mark Cross pens.

  • Near the highest elevation in Rhode Island in the woods stands a heap of rocks, a marker, about six feet high surmounted by a flat, upright slab adding another two feet to its height.

  • With confidence and principle, he argues, Americans can create "a world of new possibilities, guided by goodness," in which all obstacles can be surmounted.

  • At the summit is one of the oldest stupas in the world, an immense white mound surmounted by a golden cube, on the four sides of which are the astonishing all-seeing eyes of Buddha.


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